SmackDown last night was supposed to feel like the blue brand’s hard final push before WrestleMania 42, the penultimate stop before next Saturday and Sunday in Las Vegas. Instead, it was a show that constantly felt like it was fighting its own momentum. There was good wrestling on the episode. Bayley and Alexa Bliss put … Read more
Two weeks before WrestleMania 42, last night’s SmackDown should have been about tightening the blue brand’s biggest stories, raising the stakes, and making the road to WrestleMania feel urgent. Instead, it often felt like a show working against itself. The headline angle gave Randy Orton’s mystery caller reveal to Pat McAfee, who low-blowed Cody Rhodes … Read more
Last night’s episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown was the kind of show that gave WWE plenty of headline moments while also leaving behind a lot of frustration once everything settled. On paper, the blue brand had a lot going for it. Sami Zayn won the United States Championship. Cody Rhodes returned. Jacob Fatu and … Read more
Last night’s SmackDown was a show that spent most of its two hours flirting with frustration before finally finding its bite. For long stretches, this was a serviceable WrestleMania build built on shaky character logic, rushed contender decisions, and storylines that too often feel like they are moving in circles instead of building with purpose. … Read more
With WrestleMania 42 now just 39 days away, WWE had a clear mission on Monday Night RAW last night in Seattle: stop circling its biggest stories and finally push a few of them forward with conviction. In that sense, this was a consequential episode. Bayley earned a Women’s Intercontinental Championship opportunity against AJ Lee, Penta … Read more
Less than seven weeks before WrestleMania 42, WWE had a chance on Friday night to make SmackDown feel urgent, focused, and impossible to ignore. Instead, the March 6 episode felt like a show torn between big headline developments and deeply frustrating creative habits. On paper, this was a monumental night: Cody Rhodes regained the Undisputed … Read more
Indianapolis got the version of RAW WWE’s been leaning on in 2026: not the slow-burn kind that patiently stacks motives week after week, but the “anything can happen right now” kind that dares you to look away. In the fallout of Elimination Chamber, Monday’s show sprinted on two tracks at once—Seth Rollins vs. The Vision … Read more
Elimination Chamber didn’t just set the WrestleMania 42 board—it lit the fuse under it. Chicago gave WWE the outcomes it clearly wanted: CM Punk survived Finn Bálor, Rhea Ripley punched her ticket to Jade Cargill, and the men’s Chamber spiraled into the kind of chaos that feels designed to keep multiple paths alive at once. … Read more
Last night in Chicago, WWE ran Elimination Chamber like a company that already sees the WrestleMania 42 poster in its head and is willing to live with the complaints that come from drawing the outline in thick black marker. The wrestling delivered. The crowd responded. But the creative philosophy was loud: protect the biggest WrestleMania … Read more
